Drillsearch, Santos Find More Gas in Cooper Basin

Drillsearch Energy and partner Santos have a new wet gas discovery on the Western Wet Gas Fairway of the Cooper Basin in Australia, the sixth from seven wells drilled in FY2015.

The Emery-1 near-field exploration well in PEL 513was drilled to a total depth of 3,262 metres.

“Our FY2015 work program continues to deliver exceptional outcomes, with Emery-1 our sixth wet gas discovery with Santos, and our eighth this year overall. We look forward to working closely with Santos to commercialise these new discoveries as part of our longer term strategy to build a material Cooper Basin gas supplier,” Drillsearch Managing Director Brad Lingo said.

Drillsearch’s preliminary petrophysical interpretation of wireline logs calculated approx. 18.6 metres of net pay across several zones in the Patchawarra Formation with a gross interval of 533 metres and approx. 7.7 metres of net pay in the Tirrawarra Sandstone with a gross interval of 37 metres.

In addition to the conventional pay, several zones with potential for unconventional pay were also observed, Drillsearch said.

Based on the results of this preliminary analysis, Emery-1 has been cased and suspended as a future gas producer.

Emery-1 is located 7 kms and 10.3 kms southeast of the Moonanga-1 and Raven-1 wells respectively, both of which are producing gas fields operated by Santos. The new discovery is also located close to the Santos-operated Gidgealpa oil and gas fields to the northeast.